adger /aj'r/ vt.

[UCLA mutant of [361]nadger, poss. also from the middle name of an
infamous [362]tenured graduate student] To make a bonehead move with
consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental
effort. E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the
whole project". Compare [363]dumbass attack.
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admin /ad-min'/ n.

Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to
refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common
constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing
the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or
`newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news). Compare [367]postmaster,
[368]sysop, [369]system mangler.
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ADVENT /ad'vent/ n.

The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will
Crowther on the [373]PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at
computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented
game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the
authors of [374]INTERCAL.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal